Who is Liu Yuqin? Liu Yucen s introduction

Jingdezhen Zhushan Eight Friends Liu Yuqin.

In 1904, Liu Yucen was born in Taiping County, Anwei Province, also known as Yucheng, and is a well-known ceramic artist in the Jingdezhen ceramic art scene. When he was young, he studied in a private school, and because of his love of painting, he was deeply influenced by the Chinese painter Mr. Pan Taozong. After graduating from the pottery school at the age of 18, he came to Jingdezhen and got the help of Mr. Wang Qi, a famous porcelain painter, to paint porcelain, which laid a good foundation for the inheritance and development of ceramic art. He made positive efforts to change the decline of ceramic art at that time, to develop the fine master of Jingdezhen ceramic art, and to promote the development of Jingdezhen ceramic art.

In the common cause, he and some famous people with literary accomplishment in Jingdezhen at that time, such as Wang Qi, Wang Dafan, Wang Yeting, Tian Hexian and other eight people, formed an academic group "Full Moon Society", and often invited them to chant poems and paint together, which was called "Eight Friends of Zhushan" by later generations. They inherited the literati painting style and used Chinese painting techniques to decorate porcelain, achieving good results and changing the rigid and realistic ceramic decoration style. Since then, the literati painting style has been active in the ceramic art world with a new look.

Liu Yucen is good at painting flowers and birds, and often depicts the ecology of flowers, birds, plants and trees with part-time writing techniques. He inherited the ancient method, and his style was beautiful and beautiful, and he was moist and beautiful. He delved into the harmony and unity of ceramic painting.

During his lifetime, he created many exquisite ceramic pastel flower and bird paintings, which were collected by Chinese and foreign enthusiasts. At the same time, he is also committed to the cultivation of ceramic art talents, and has successively taught in "Fuliang County Ceramic Staff School", "Zhushan National Porcelain Art School", "Oriental Art School" and other schools.

After the liberation, he devoted himself more energetically to the creation of ceramic art. In 1955, after working in the Institute of Ceramics, he created a large number of ceramic art works, which were successively selected by large books such as "Jingdezhen Porcelain Anthology" and "Chinese Ceramics Jingdezhen Painted Porcelain" (Sino-Japanese Journal) and various newspapers and periodicals across the country. He created the artwork of "Water Peach Blossoms" with the boneless method of the Qing Dynasty flower and bird painters Yun Nantian and Ren Gu, which was praised by people for its fresh and elegant artistic effect.

It has made a positive contribution to the development of ceramic art.

Liu Yucen died in 1969, but his outstanding achievements in ceramic art have left a profound impact on future generations. In 1959, he was awarded the title of ceramic artist and served as the vice chairman of the Jiangxi Branch of the Chinese Artists Association. Chairman of Jingdezhen Ceramic Artists Association, Vice Chairman of Jingdezhen Political Consultative Conference; In 1962, he was a member of the Chinese Artists Association. In 1964, he was a special member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Liu Yuqin (1904-1969), a native of Huangshan, Anhui Province, was a member of the Eight Friends of Zhushan. In order to study, he had to join Boyang and graduated from the Provincial Class A Industrial Ceramics School, which is a professional background. Because he was a fellow villager with Wang Qi, and his father-in-law was friends with Wang Qi, he was widely talked about in Jingdezhen as "father and son", and devoted his life to the creation of flower and bird paintings.

Created the water point peach blossom technique: directly use the glass white to point out the image of the flower, and then take the colored water pen to dye it, the color is free and light, and the flower head is more lively, lovely and natural, which is a perfect combination of Chinese flower and bird freehand painting and craft skills in the real sense. He was the first person to change the cumbersomeness of flower and bird painting in the past, and applied the artistic conception of the Xin'an School to the creation of ceramic painting and flower and bird painting.

The work is sparse and lonely, presenting an ethereal realm, just like the elegance and coldness of Xin'an landscape painting, the picture is sparse but not empty, and the composition is perfect. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of daily porcelain was designed for the reception of foreign heads of state.

Liu Yucen (1904-1969) was originally known as Wang Cheng, later changed to Yucen, also known as Yucheng, room name Jue'an, in the early days used Qin Bingzhai, alias Xianghu Yu, Qiao Weng, Bamboo Man, Jiangxi Boyang people, good at pastel flowers and birds, and created the "water point peach blossom" technique; One of the "Eight Friends of Zhushan".

Everyone says "Zhushan Eight Friends", not to mention those who collect cloisonne, "Zhushan Eight Friends" is simply a brand logo of cloisonne. Indeed, picking up a cloisonné work of "Eight Friends of Zhushan" to play with it can indeed make people feel that there is such a taste of excellence in it. It can be said politely that the cloisonné works of the descendants of today's "Eight Friends of Zhushan", especially those works that strive for perfection, not only have high ornamental value, high appreciation value, but also have high collection value.

So what is the "Eight Friends of Zhushan"?

Zhushan, is a small hill in the center of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, the Ming and Qing dynasties of the imperial kiln factory are built here, so Zhushan often becomes another name of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, many ancient and modern porcelain artists do not write Jingdezhen but write Zhushan when they write on the picture, which is a habit. Although the "Eight Friends of Zhushan" is called Eight Friends, there are 10 people who participated before and after.

Liu Yucen (1904-1969), male, formerly known as "Yucheng", later changed to "Yucen", "Yucheng", Zhai name "Jue'an", alias "Yuhu Fish", Anhui Taiping (now Huangshan District, Huangshan City), one of the masters of Zhushan Bayou porcelain plate painting, Chinese ceramic art master, living in Boyang County, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from Jiangxi Ceramics School in 1923 and later went to Jingdezhen to engage in ceramic art creation activities. In 1969, he died suddenly of mental disorder and cerebral hemorrhage during criticism at the age of 65.

He used names such as Yucheng and Yucheng. It is also called Yuhu Fishery, and after sixty years, it is called Qiao Weng. Zhai Mingjue box, drink ice.

His ancestral home is Taiping County, Anhui Province (now Daqiao Liu Village, Gantang Town, Huangshan District, Huangshan City), and he was born in Poyang County, Jiangxi Province. Due to the fierce battle between the Taiping army and the Qing army in Anhui, the grandparents fled from Taiping County, Anhui Province to Jiangxi, and their father Liu Haiqing was born in Poyang, a coppersmith who made a living by making copperware. In Poyang County, the young Liu Yucen was influenced by a nearby painting shop, from the Qintan Hall to the study of painting, and then worshiped the well-known painter Pan Gouzi (Pan Taoyu) in Boyang to learn art, and also studied private school for several years, in l918, he changed to fill in the Boyang nationality, and was admitted to the Raozhou Jiangxi Provincial A Xinyu Industrial Pottery School (the school is not accepted by non-Jiangxi people).

Good at ceramic pastel flowers and birds. In his early years, he was influenced by Hua Zhe's painting art, and in his middle age, he was deeply influenced by the essence of the painting art of Ren Bonian and the Silla mountain people, and gradually formed a fresh and elegant painting style.